Anthem Players Are Trying to Organize a Protest this Week to Revert Loop Drop Changes

This past weekend, those playingAnthemfound themselves getting far more loot than at any other time in the game’s short life. These more frequent loot drops were initially thought to have been a new addition toAnthembut it turns out that the drops were only occurring so often because of a bug. Come Saturday when BioWare pushed outthe game’s latest patch, this bug was fixed leaving those who were loving this iteration of the loot system frustrated and upset.

Now, players on theAnthemsubreddit are trying to band together and boycott the game throughout this upcoming week to prove to BioWare that the frequent loot drops that were seen as a “bug” need to return. In apost on the subredditfrom user u/Supp0rt, they suggested that players stop playingAnthemfor the entirety of this week from March 11 through the 15th.

“Get your point across, simple as that,” said the original post in question. “Stop Playing the game for a whole Week (Hopefully with the support of the entire Subreddit) to show BioWare that all it’d take for us to really enjoy the game, is to receive loot.”

Since this post has gone live, it has immediately jumped to the top of theAnthemsubreddit. Some speaking in the post have agreed with the proposed “Blackout” while others have said that they already stopped playingAnthemanyway. “Jokes on you. I stopped playing last week,” said one reply in the thread. Another poster pointed out that with the arrival ofUbisoft’sThe Division 2this week, they expectAnthemnumbers to drop drastically as it is, Blackout or not.

Regardless of whether or not theAnthemcommunity on Reddit sticks to this supposed protest this week, one thing seems to ring true from everyone: the game’s loot system has to be changed. Complaints about loot and the frequency of drops seem to be the biggest single complaint that most ofAnthem’s players have at the moment. And in a game centered entirely around loot, that’s a rather big issue to have.

We’ll have to wait and see if BioWare plans on adjusting the current loot system any time soon or if they’ll respond directly to this protest.Anthemis currently available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.